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Here are materials, complex no and how it is work

 

IIR filters: Digital filter equation -

http://www.bores.com/courses/intro/iir/5_eq.htm

 

IIR filters: Filter frequency response -

http://www.bores.com/courses/intro/iir/5_resp.htm

 

IIR filters: The z transform -

http://www.bores.com/courses/intro/iir/5_ztran.htm

 

IIR filters: The meaning of z, where z is a complex number

http://www.bores.com/courses/intro/iir/5_z.htm

 

 

enjoy:D

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If you're having a go at mastering your own tracks, I highly recommend trying "Density" across your mixdowns:

http://varietyofsound.wordpress.com/

 

Bootsie makes a lot of great plugins, THAT ARE FREE, and Density is designed to fatten up mixes (it's not designed for single tracks, instrument compression etc). Strap it on a plugin chain with some of Bootsie's EQ, and his Nasty "limiter", and you have a pretty good free mastering setup. It's helped me make my mixes sound a bit thicker, punchier.

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I'm just starting to learn about mastering and in the past it seemed just a little daunting, being so far outside anything I had experience of combined with all the talk of it being a field best left to highly skilled specialists with lots of experience. Since then I've read tutorials and have the basic ideas and techniques now.

What surprised me is when I started to watch the spectrum plots of some of my favorite Goa tracks (some of RA's beautifully mastered sounds for example), they were pretty much just totally flat across the whole spectrum, at least at the important parts of peak activity in the tracks with the most instruments playing at once.

Now, adjusting EQ to give a flat response for the key parts of a track seems really straightforward to me. There's so much talk about making sure the music sounds good across a range of different sound systems, but surely if the spectrum is flat, it's flat, and it leaves room for the listener to adjust the EQ to fit their listening environment.

I guess if I were trying to master some rock music recorded live and needing to correct for anomalies in the recording environment, it could get more complicated. When 99% of the sounds are coming from software synths, surely you're most of the way there to begin with once you get the mix where you want it?

I know about compression to increase loudness and I do use it on some of my sounds as well as filters to stop frequencies clashing but I do most of that as I go and not really as part of a separate mastering step. On some tracks I will look at just a little compression on the master channel to make them a bit louder.

Is there more to mastering than I am seeing, or is it really this easy for Goa trance?

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